Duran Kalkan

Duran Kalkan (1954-) was a commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Biography
Duran Kalkan was born in 1954 in Guzelim, Tufanbeyli Province, Turkey. He fought in the Kurdistan Workers' Party as a guerrilla commander, but in the late 1980s he became the manager of PKK finance, managing the finances in Germany in the early 1990s until fleeing to Iraqi Kurdistan to avoid arrest. He became a member of the executive council of the Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK), the umbrella group that led the PKK.